This is an analysis of the poem The Duke Of Chow Tells Of His Soldiers that begins with:
To the hills of the east we went,
And long had we there to remain....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBABcdcXaeae ABABfgfgdada ABAB adadbfbf ABABdadahaha
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,4,8,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00100111 11111001 10100111 111101001 11101111 11001011 11011111 111110110 101101011 011010010 10111101 110110010 00100111 11111001 10100111 111101001 010011001 011101001 011001111 11111101 11011001 00111101 11111101 11101011 00100111 11111001 10100111 111101001 11111001 011011101 11111111 111101101 01011011 01001111 100101110 11011001 00100111 11111001 10100111 111101001 00111111 001011001 11011001 111111001 11011011 101011101 111011011 11001001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 358
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; our, with are repeated.
The author used the same word to at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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